OK I'll rephrase it. I wouldn't want to live my life subject to other peoples whims of keeping me alive via a feeding tube or pulling it and letting me starve. Obviously there are other issues at work here. My life has to fall within certain parameters or else it isn't worth living.
Hell, neither would I. Who would?
If what you're saying is, "So therefore, if I were in Terri's position, I'd want the tube to be removed", well again, that's fascinating autobiographical data, and thanks for sharing.
Nevertheless, what YOU "would want" is irrelevant to this case and it is projection on your part to say otherwise.
My life has to fall within certain parameters or else it isn't worth living.
Again, I am fascinated and enthralled by your autobiography, so thanks for sharing.
However, to dictate those "parameters" to others - and declare that other lives aren't "worth living" if they don't fall within your "parameters" - would be simply monstrous. Hopefully that's not what you're doing.
Inferring from your screen name and tag line that you are a Biblically based Christian, I am surprised by your attitude on this. Is my inference incorrect?
If your life belongs to God, and if you live by faith rather then site, then why not defer such a decision to Him?
That's what Christopher Reeve thought in the days immediately following his accident; he was depressed to the point of dispair and openly stated that he did not want to live. But, we need go no further than the title of his book to find the seminal Truth of this whole issue. In a moment of profound clarity, the former Superman wrote "Still Me"; thus summarizing in two words the totality of evidence required to decide the issue in favor of LIFE. He remaind himself despite the drastically altered condition of his physical body. He retained all of the inherent value of a human life that he had always had. In this most important regard, nothing had changed. No impairment reduces the intrinsic value of a human life, nor is any human life of greater value any other.
This value is inherent in our human lives and it transcends our control; we cannot add to it, nor can we subtract from it. How, then, can we propose that we are in a position to determine when our lives ought to end? That's preposterous! It's morally absurd!
I posess value over which I can exercise no control, yet I presume to dictate when I will cease to have value?
"I shall scale the summit and ascend to the pinnacle of power over my own being! I shall be called God of Myself and My dictae none shall gainsay!"
Sorry. Someone else is already in that position, and He isn't sharing it with you.
I don't know why you give some of these condescending arse-wipes the time of day ("fascinating autobiographical data" and all that cr*p).